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Automated Database Tuning Service for RDS MySQL/Postgres

Shown by apavlo on Oct 14, 2021. Click the card to turn it over.

164points

63comments

#295of 2,533 in 2021

Top 12%of 2021 by points

How HN took it

MixedNo clear lean

12 positive, 16 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 4 critical, out of 33 comments about the project. Thread score +0.16.

Pricing: 0 for, 2 againstIdea: 1 for, 1 againstDocs: 1 for, 1 against

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Only supports AWS RDS; hard to try off AWS
From 2 comments
- Hi! This looks really cool and I like that you've published/presented at VLDB. I'm a little curious why AWS is free/cheap, but anything other than AWS ends up in the "Enterprise,…
  mdasen on HN
- Looks like only AWS is supported now. Will there be GCP Cloud SQL support? Seems very useful!
  ddlutz on HN
Single-user limit on the paid plan is too restrictive
From 1 comment
- I don't get the user account limit in products like this. On the free tier, sure.. limit me to 1 account. Fine. But on a $450 plan a 1 user limit is just absurd. So what? me and…
  simplyinfinity on HN
Pricing could allow gaming by switching databases on and off
From 1 comment
- Hi! This looks really cool and I like that you've published/presented at VLDB. I'm a little curious why AWS is free/cheap, but anything other than AWS ends up in the "Enterprise,…
  mdasen on HN
Tuning is one-time for static workloads so ongoing payment is questioned
From 1 comment
- Once a database has been tunned, why would people keep paying for the service?
  slig on HN

Support for GCP Cloud SQL
From 1 comment
- Looks like only AWS is supported now. Will there be GCP Cloud SQL support? Seems very useful!
  ddlutz on HN
Support for MSSQL and MariaDB
From 2 comments
- any plans for MSSQL?
  bvm on HN
- I understand this does not support MariaDB, right?
  pachico on HN
Self-hosted Postgres and EU availability zones
From 2 comments
- Do you plan to support self-hosted Postgres ?
  devops000 on HN
- Wondering why they decided not to give free trials to EU Zones. GDPR?
  onmysofa on HN
Terraform support
From 1 comment
- OtterTune looks very cool. I see you can setup using CloudFormation. Any chance terraform is on the roadmap? On a personal note, thanks for everything you do. I’m a subscriber to…
  ellisv on HN

Which config knobs change most and how it selects them
From 1 comment
- What are the top three Postgres configurations Otter changes? e.g. parameter x from y to z
  mritchie712 on HN
Whether it applies changes automatically
From 1 comment
- Does it automatically apply its recommendations? Or does it just propose them? My DB configuration is about the last thing I want changing while I sleep.
  etaioinshrdlu on HN

Oracle autonomous database and AutoPilot
From 1 comment
- > If I may, can you please shed light on why Peloton had to be archived and in essence re-done with OtterTune. Interested in your team's learnings from it from a software…
  apavlo on HN
OpenStack Trove
From 1 comment
- What about OpenStack Trove DBaaS? OpenStack Trove is like an open source self-hosted Amazon RDS or Google CloudSQL. https://docs.openstack.org/trove/latest/ FWIU, Trove supports…
  westurner on HN
PostgreSQL config management tool from Ongres
From 1 comment
- Hi Andy. First of all, congrats for the project. As you probably know, you and any other user can indeed manage Postgres configurations, in any environment, via an API. See the…
  ahachete on HN